Dementia Care in New London, CT
Specialized in-home support for seniors with dementia, Alzheimer's, and memory loss.
No sales pressure. We'll tell you straight if we're not a fit.
You asked your mom what she wanted for breakfast and she looked at you like she was trying to place your face. You’ve been driving over from across town, stopping by before work, rearranging your whole week around her schedule. New London families go through this quietly, often for months, before they say it out loud: this is too much to manage alone. We hear that call a lot, and we know how to help.
Dementia care at home is about keeping your parent in the place they know, with a routine that anchors them, and a caregiver who understands what that actually takes. We’re a nurse-founded agency, and we’ve built our approach around exactly this kind of care.
Dementia care is non-medical support built around memory loss and the way it reshapes someone’s daily life. It means a caregiver who shows up at the same time each morning, uses the same words, follows the same sequence, because consistency is one of the few things that still works. It means staying close during moments of confusion, redirecting calmly when agitation rises, and knowing when to back off and just sit with someone.
On a typical day, that can include help getting up and dressed, prompting meals, medication reminders, light activity, and simply being present so your parent doesn’t feel alone in a house full of things they can no longer make sense of. We cover all areas of New London, and for families near Lawrence + Memorial Hospital handling a post-discharge transition back home, we can often have care in place before the discharge paperwork is even signed. The difference between a smooth return home and a crisis is usually just having the right person there.
Families in New London most often call us when they’ve noticed safety slipping. The stove left on. Wandering at night. A parent who insists they’re fine and then can’t find the bathroom. Dementia care gives you coverage during those hours when you physically can’t be there, and it gives your parent the steady presence that makes their world feel smaller and safer.
Because we were founded by a working nurse, our team understands the medical picture behind memory loss and we brief every caregiver before their first shift. That briefing matters. A caregiver who knows your parent’s history, their triggers, and their routine can actually help. One who doesn’t is just filling hours.
Nurse-founded, and it shows
Our agency was started by a working nurse who watched families dealing with memory loss try to navigate a system that wasn’t built for them. The way we screen, brief, and match caregivers comes directly from that clinical background. It’s not a selling point, it’s how we operate.
Built around dementia, not just care in general
Dementia care requires a specific kind of patience and a specific kind of skill. We match caregivers to this service based on real experience with memory loss, behavioral changes, and routine-keeping, not just whoever is available. You’ll notice the difference in the first week.
We pick up when you call
When something changes with dementia, it often changes fast. Your parent stopped eating. They were up all night. They don’t recognize the caregiver today. You should be able to reach someone at our agency immediately, and you can. We don’t send you to voicemail when things get hard.
We know New London County
We understand how discharge works at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital and what families here are dealing with. We serve all areas of New London and the surrounding county, and we’re not a distant agency trying to place people from far away. The people who answer your call know this area.
How it works
You tell us what’s going on, we listen. No forms to fill out, no intake questionnaire, no pressure. Just a real conversation about your situation so we understand what kind of help actually makes sense.
For dementia care especially, the match matters more than the schedule. We look at your parent’s personality, their stage of memory loss, and their daily routine before we ever suggest a name. Availability alone isn’t a match.
Often same day for New London families in an urgent situation, like a recent fall, a discharge from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, or a family member who just can’t make it work alone anymore. We move when you need us to.
Ongoing check-ins are part of how we work. If something changes with your parent’s condition or the care isn’t quite right, you call us and we adjust. You’re not left trying to figure out who to talk to.
Why families choose us
Every aide is trained and supervised through an RN’s lens — not just placed and forgotten.
Personality fit matters more than skill on paper. We match for temperament, pace, and patience.
No franchise rotation. You work with the people who run this agency — direct, accessible, accountable.
Most families are matched with a caregiver within 24 to 48 hours. When something shifts at home, we move quickly.
We build a daily structure around your parent’s rhythm — meals, walks, evenings — and protect it.
You hear from us, not just the aide. Updates on appetite, sleep, mood, mobility — the things that matter.
Every caregiver clears a multi-step screening — background check, reference checks, and an in-person interview with our RN founder — before they're ever placed in a home.
Why families trust us
Private Duty Aides is nurse-founded. Every caregiver clears a multi-step screening — a background check, reference checks, and an in-person interview with our RN founder — before they are ever placed in a home. You get the same consistent caregiver, matched by a nurse, not whoever happens to be available.
Common questions
A typical day with dementia care looks like a consistent morning routine: getting up, washed, and dressed in the same order, at the same time, with familiar prompts. The caregiver helps with meals, tracks fluid intake, offers gentle activity, and stays present through periods of confusion or anxiety. In the afternoon that might mean a short walk, music, a photo album, or just sitting together quietly. The goal is a day your parent can move through without feeling lost or overwhelmed, and it sounds simple until you've tried to hold that together every single day.
In most cases we can have care in place within 24 to 48 hours of your call, and for urgent discharges from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital we'll do everything we can to get someone there the same day. The key is calling us as early in the discharge process as possible, even before a date is confirmed. That gives us time to make a proper match rather than just sending whoever is available. A rushed placement with the wrong caregiver at discharge creates more problems than it solves, so earlier is always better.
We're a private-pay agency, which means Medicare and most standard insurance plans don't cover our services. Some long-term care insurance policies do include coverage for non-medical home care, so it's worth checking your policy details. We'll never pretend the cost doesn't matter, and we'll always be straightforward with you about what things run before you commit to anything. A lot of families in New London find that paying privately gives them more control over scheduling, caregiver selection, and how care evolves over time.
A home health aide typically works under a medical order and focuses on clinical tasks like wound care, medication administration, or physical therapy follow-through. Dementia care through us is non-medical, meaning we focus on daily life, safety, routine, and presence rather than medical procedures. The two often work alongside each other, and we're used to coordinating with home health providers when families have both in place. If you're not sure which one you need, call us and we'll help you sort it out honestly.
Yes, and we take that seriously. Before we suggest anyone, we want to know your parent's history, their temperament, what calms them down, what sets them off, whether they respond better to a quiet presence or someone more talkative. Personality fit is especially important with dementia because a mismatch doesn't just cause friction, it can genuinely increase anxiety and behavioral symptoms. We've made enough of these matches to know what to look for, and we'd rather take an extra day to get it right than place someone quickly and have it fall apart.
We keep backup coverage in mind from day one, because consistency matters so much in dementia care and disruptions happen. If your regular caregiver is sick or unavailable, we contact you directly, explain the situation, and arrange a backup who has been briefed on your parent's routine and needs. We don't send strangers without context. You'll always know who is coming to the house and why, and we'll never leave you scrambling on your own to figure out coverage.
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Private Duty Aides — New London, CT
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